2025 Webinar Series: The Power of Partnership: Enhancing Tissue Donation through Hospital Engagement (Group)

Includes a Live Web Event on 09/24/2025 at 2:00 PM (EDT)

Description: Strong partnerships drive donation success. Join us on September 24 for “The Power of Partnership: Enhancing Tissue Donation through Hospital Engagement,” where Donor Network of Arizona (DNA) shares how collaboration with hospitals leads to better outcomes in tissue donation. Learn about their approach to staff education, real-time support, and performance improvement, and hear directly from Banner Thunderbird Medical Center on what an effective partnership looks like from the hospital side. This webinar is ideal for OPO and hospital professionals focused on donor programs, recovery, and strengthening clinical collaboration.

Target Audience: This webinar is ideal for professionals from Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) and hospitals who are involved in tissue donation processes such as hospital development and donor program liaisons, tissue services and recovery teams, clinical and nursing leadership, OPO professionals focused on hospital engagement and collaboration.

Katy Krogstad, MSN, RN, CPTC

Clinical In-House Coordinator

Donor Network of Arizona

Katy Krogstad brings a wealth of critical care expertise and a passion for advancing organ donation programs. She began her career in a medical-surgical trauma unit and progressed to the cardiovascular and trauma intensive care unit at a Level 1 trauma center in Phoenix. Katy later joined Donor Network of Arizona as an Organ Recovery Coordinator and now serves as a Clinical In-House Coordinator at a major acute-care and behavioral health hospital in Glendale, where she has played a key role in building and enhancing their organ and tissue donation program. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing with an emphasis in Strategic Systems Leadership, both from Northern Arizona University, equipping her with the clinical insight and strategic expertise to drive meaningful improvements in patient care and organizational outcomes.